"All your life every man has wanted to be a cowboy.
Why play Wall Street and die young when you can play cowboy and never die?"
- Will Rogers, July 10, 1931
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Richard Beal (63) and his family live near Santa Fe, New Mexico in the town of Lamy (population 137) overlooking the beautiful Galisteo Basin. Loving wife Kathy is a professional photographer and painter, an ordained Interfaith Minister, and is the Chief Financial Officer for Silicon Valley entrepreneur Eric Hahn. Richard has a BS degree from UCLA in International Finance, an MS in Sociology from the University of Missouri, and a Masters of Divinity degree in Theology from San Francisco Theological Seminary. Today he studies and tries to to practice Buddhism. |
Richard has two grown children: fantastic son Andrew who had our first granddaughter, Rebekah Elizabeth.
Andrew runs a hyperbaric chamber at Davis Hospital & Medical
Center and has completed training as
a professional diver, with a medical specialty, at the College of Oceaneering in Long Beach,
California. He also has a BS in Behavioral Science.
Beautiful daughter Chandra lives in Brighton, England and
is a massage therapist who works on both people and animals. She's also
a talented writer who wrote and published the popular books Splash Across Texas, The Relaxed Rabbit, and a new book on the
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk with Richard.
Chandra has a very successful publishing company, La Luna Publishing,
and writes for many publications and web sites.
Richard's father Ralph, after 47 years in La Canada, California now lives in Carmel Valley, California,
and enjoying retirement and good health.
Younger brother John is a very
successful composer and music producer who lives with wife Helene in Toluca Lake, California. |
Richard is Past President for the University of California Santa Cruz's Friends of the Long Marine Laboratory,
and on the Board of Directors for the Richard and Kathy Beal Family Fund.
He is former President of Horse Power Protection Projects and
a Certified Horse Professional with the Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association. Richard
also has an Internet store
featuring quality authentic cowboy belt buckles, Beal's Cowboy Buckles.
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Free time is spent writing non-fiction books like his best selling Highway 17: The Road to Santa Cruz and the new Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk - The Early Years, Never A Dull Moment,
training and riding horses,
playing with their cats,
collecting glass and contemporary art, and
supporting community organizations.
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Richard worked in the computer industry for 28 years with a variety of Silicon Valley institutions like
Stanford University and Apple
Computer, was a Vice President at Internet pioneering company Netscape Communications, and finished his career working with
startup companies and venture capitalists
like Silver Lake Partners and The Barksdale Group.
Richard and Kathy also own a business called The Pacific Group for some of their professional activities.
During the mid-60s Richard served as a Captain in the United States Air Force
and in the 70s worked with the United Farmworkers Union as an organizer,
was involved in developing support centers for the homeless in Los Angeles and Pasadena,
led a Christian commune dedicated to community improvement called Footsteps,
and was a Manager at the Center for Employment Training
which provides free training & job placement for the disadvantaged.
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What might surprise you about Richard:
"I believe in reincarnation and in my next life I'd like to be
the Lone Ranger"
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